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Americans Reflect on Nation’s COVID-19 Response
Demographics of COVID-19 vaccination status among all U.S. adults and within the Republican and Democratic Party
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- Americans Reflect on Nation’s COVID-19 Response
- Majority of Americans say the country has given too little priority to the needs of K-12 students
- Majority of Republicans say country has given too little priority to respecting individuals’ choices during the coronavirus outbreak
- 55% say vaccination is extremely or very effective at limiting coronavirus spread
- Declining share views the coronavirus as a major threat to public health
- About half say public health officials have done an excellent or good job responding to outbreak
- Republicans offer much lower ratings of public health officials than Democrats
- Younger adults are less confident that U.S. health care system could handle a future global health emergency
- Majority of Americans view vaccination as extremely or very effective at limiting the spread of coronavirus
- Wide partisan gap over how effective mask wearing is at limiting the spread of the coronavirus
- Most Americans say treatments for people with the coronavirus have gotten better
- About seven-in-ten U.S. adults say they are fully vaccinated against COVID-19
- Groups in U.S. with relatively higher, and lower, rates of vaccination against COVID-19
- Younger Americans more likely to say they have had COVID-19
- Younger people, those with higher incomes more likely to have taken at-home coronavirus tests
- Majority who took an at-home coronavirus test did so in response to symptoms
- Americans less concerned about getting a serious case of COVID-19 than earlier in the outbreak
- American Trends Panel recruitment surveys
- Invitation and reminder dates
- Weighting dimensions
- Margins of error
- Response rates
- Republicans and Democrats offer differing assessments of country’s response to COVID-19
- Majority of Americans think the country has moved past the worst of the coronavirus outbreak
- Declining share of Americans see the coronavirus outbreak as a major threat to their personal health
- Fewer than half now view the coronavirus as a major threat to public health
- Across racial and ethnic groups, most in U.S. say someone they know has been hospitalized or died from coronavirus
- Public gives high marks to local hospitals and medical centers’ response to the coronavirus outbreak
- Demographics of COVID-19 vaccination status among all U.S. adults and within the Republican and Democratic Party
- White evangelical Protestants less likely than other religious groups to have received a COVID-19 vaccine